# consto
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈkɔns.tu]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈkɔns.to]

### Verb

consto
* first-person singular present indicative of constar

## Italian
### Verb

consto
* first-person singular present indicative of constare

### Anagrams

* sconto, scontò

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *komstaēō. Equivalent to con- (“together”) +‎ stō (“stand”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈkon.stoː/, [ˈkõːs̠t̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈkon.sto/, [ˈkɔnst̪o]

### Verb

cōnstō (present infinitive cōnstāre, perfect active cōnstitī, supine cōnstātum); first conjugation, no passive
* to stand together
** c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.28:In foro ac locis patentioribus [...] constiteruntThey stood together in the marketplace and the more open places
* to stand still; to remain the same; stand firm
    Synonyms: sistō, persistō, remaneō, maneō, stō, haereō
* to agree, correspond, fit
    Synonyms: concordō, condīcō, conveniō, cōnsentiō, assentiō, concurrō, congruō, pangō
    Antonyms: dissentiō, dissideō, discordō, variō, abhorreō
* to be certain, decided, consistent
    Antonyms: errō, pendeō, dubitō, fluitō, vagor
* (used impersonally) to be well known
    cōnstat
* to consist, to be composed of
** c. 1300, Tractatus de Ponderibus et Mensuris:carrus plumbi constat ex triginta fotmallisThe fother of lead is formed from thirty fotmals.
* to cost (with ablative)
    Multō sanguine victōria nōbīs cōnstitit.The victory cost us much blood.
    Quantī cōnstat?How much does it cost?

#### Descendants

* Balkan Romance:
** Aromanian: custã
** Romanian: custa
* Italo-Romance:
** Italian: costare
*** → Romanian: costa
** Neapolitan: costare
** Sicilian: custari
* Padanian:
** Friulian: costâ
** Istriot: custà
** Ladin: coster
** Romansch: custar, custair, cuostair
** Venetan: costar
* Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: costar
** Franco-Provençal: côtar
** Old French: coster (see there for further descendants)
** Occitan: costar
* Ibero-Romance:
** Asturian: costar
** Old Galician-Portuguese: costar, custar
*** Galician: costar
*** Portuguese: custar
** Old Spanish: costar
*** Spanish: costar
* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: costai, costare, costari
* Borrowings:
** → Albanian: kushtoj
** → Catalan: constar
** → French: constat
** → Italian: constare
** → Portuguese: constar
** → Romanian: consta
** → Spanish: constar

### References

* “consto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “consto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* consto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. I am losing my eyesight and getting deaf: neque auribus neque oculis satis consto to be composed of; to consist of: constare ex aliqua re it is a recognised fact: inter omnes constat I have not made up my mind: mihi non constat (with indirect question) to contradict oneself, be inconsistent: a se dissidere or sibi non constare (of persons) to compose oneself with difficulty: mente vix constare (Tusc. 4. 17. 39) to be consistent: sibi constare, constantem esse a thing costs much, little: aliquid magno, parvo stat, constat a thing costs nothing: aliquid nihilo or gratis constat the accounts balance: ratio alicuius rei constat (convenit, par est)

## Portuguese
### Verb

consto
* first-person singular present indicative of constar

## Spanish
### Verb

consto
* first-person singular present indicative of constar